 Week in, week out, from morn till night, You can hear his bellows blow ; You can hear him swing his heavy sledge, With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell When the evening sun is low. And children coming home from school Look...  American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 4191840Full view - About this book
 | United States - 1843 - 708 pages
...heavy sledge, With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell, When the evening sun is low. And children coming home from school Look...He hears the parson pray and preach, He hears his daughter's voice, Singing in the village choir, And it makes his heart rejoice. It sounds to him like... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1843 - 570 pages
...heavy sledge, With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell, When the evening sun is low. And children coming home from school Look...catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing floor. He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among his boys ; He hears the parson pray... | |
 | Children's poetry - 1843 - 184 pages
...his heavy sledge With measured beat and slow, Like the sexton ringing the bell, When the evening sun is low. And children, coming home from school, Look...catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from the threshing-floor. He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among his boys ; He hears the parson... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1844 - 136 pages
...sledge, With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell When the evening sun ia low. And children coming home from school, Look in...catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from a thrashing-floor. He goes on Sunday to the church. And sits among his boys ; He hears the parson pray... | |
 | The Mirror of Literature,Amusement,and Instruction.New Series.VOL.V - 1844 - 440 pages
...beat, and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell, When the evening sun is low. 74 THE MIRROR. And children coming home from school Look in at the...catch the burning sparks that fly, Like chaff from a threshing floor. He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among his boys; He hears the parson pray... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 482 pages
...heavy sledge, With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell When the evening sun is low. And children, coming home from school, Look...He hears the parson pray and preach; He hears his daughter's voice Singing in the village choir, And it makes his heart rejoice. It sounds to him like... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 494 pages
...With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell When the evening siin is low. M And children, coming home from school, Look in at...He hears the parson pray and preach ; He hears his daughter's voice Singing in the village choir, And it makes his heart, rejoice. It sounds to him like... | |
 | William Russell, John Goldsbury - Elocution - 1845 - 292 pages
...his heavy sledge With measured beat and slow, Like the sexton ringing the bell, When the evening sun is low. And children coming home from school, Look...among his boys ; He hears the parson pray and preach, And he hears his daughter's voice, Singing in the village choir, And it makes his heart rejoice. It... | |
 | William Russell, John Goldsbury - Elocution - 1845 - 300 pages
...his heavy sledge With measured beat and slow, Like the sexton ringing the bell, When the evening sun is low. And children coming home from school, Look...roar, And catch the burning sparks, that fly Like chaif from a threshing-floor. He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among his boys ; He hears the... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 390 pages
...see a flaming forge, And hear the bellows roar, And cutch the burning sparks, lhat fly Lifce chuff— from a threshing-floor He goes, on Sunday, to the...hears the parson — pray and preach, He hears his daughter's voice, Singing — in the village choir, And it makes his heart rejoice. It sounds lo him.... | |
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